There are plans to station more than 100 police indefinitely at the Browse gas hub site in anticipation of an influx of environmental activists.

There are plans to station more than 100 police indefinitely at the site in anticipation of an influx of environmental activists, the ABC has reported.

Nigel Grazier, the vice-president of the project, said geotechnical studies had resumed today.

There had been a significant ramping-up in activity, with barges currently on route to James Price Point, Mr Grazier said.

Wilderness Society Kimberley campaign manager Glen Klatovsky said it was a waste of police resources and taxpayer money to send police "to crush the Broome community", which had already been traumatised by last year's heavy-handed use of police and Woodside's own private security force.

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Many local protesters, including elderly indigenous people, were last year hauled away by police and locked up, Mr Klatovsky said.

Opposition Leader Mark McGowan last week accused Premier Colin Barnett of "Soviet-style interventionism" because the Liberal leader insisted on James Price Point being the site for the project.

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Those against the project being situated at James Price Point, including the Greens, had repeatedly called for Browse Basin gas to be piped to the south to Woodside's existing North West Shelf facilities in the Pilbara region.

Mr Klatovsky appealed to the project's joint venture partners Shell, Chevron, BHP Billiton, BP, Mitsubishi and Mitsui to speak out against "any rash and anti-democratic actions" taken against protesters.

"Do these companies want to be forever remembered by images of police dragging local community members into paddy wagons?" he said.

The ABC Radio report also said the local council was under pressure to tear down illegal structures at the protest camp.

Police said they were unable to confirm the report because they don't comment on operational issues.